in honor of the doc of a generational releasing today, we obsessed over @ElizabethHolmes voice a lot can be said about her, but her voice is irrevocably distinct and…practiced we pulled 16 recordings of her from 2014 to 2017, we’ve pulled them from ted talks, charlie rose, cnn, mad money, a bunch of conference panels, and 3 full days of her deposition. about 4 hours of her talking total we've been running her voice through @try_soma before the documentary drops and honestly the deposition sounds like a different person: - hedging (“i think”, “i believe”, “sort of”) went from 3.8 to 19.5 per 1,000 words, about 5x. every deposition day was higher than every public appearance - stumbles went from 29 to 50 per 1,000 words - her sentences got simpler, 2.3 clauses per sentence down to 1.8 - her pitch dropped too, 152 hz in public to 136 hz under oath the part i didn’t expect: if you score her against normal population benchmarks she looks totally fine. good to excellent in almost every recording, deposition included. her hedging under oath (17 to 23 per 1,000 words) is still technically “normal” for people in general it’s only when you compare her to HER that the shift shows up. against her own baseline it’s super obvious which is kind of the whole point of what we’re building. a score that compares you to everyone else would’ve totally missed this also fun fact, she’s at her most polished on stage. slowest pace (129 words per minute), cleanest speech (3 filler words per 1,000). on tv she’s way faster, 177 wpm. so even her “public” voice isn’t one voice maybe we’ll run it again with @nathanfielder 's You Can See Everything, since that’ll be the first new audio of her since 2017?